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"Creative Bundles" fundraiser - make a beautiful wooden sign to hang in your home, give as a wedding, Christmas or other gift.

Sandy brought this beautiful fundraiser to our board meeting on Tuesday evening. Let her know if you are interested in making one of these beautiful wood signs for your home. Prices are below each sign.

Contact Sandy at madaboutcows@rogers.com

All Saints

At the firehall two bells indicates all safe home. At Epiphany on all saints day we ring our bell as each name on our All Saints list is read. When everyone's name has been read we ring the bell twice to indicate all safe home.

LONSDALE, Willis Earl…
Peacefully, in his 93rd year on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. Willis served our country with honour with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Canada, United Kingdom and Continental Europe from January 1944 until May 1946, being awarded the France and Germany Star and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal. He was loving husband to Winnifred “Bunny”. Dear father of Wayne (Liza), Susan Hodgins, Barry (Isobel), Joan Cresswell (Mike) and Linda (John). Much loved grandfather of Sean (Melany), Kevin (Jennifer), Brett (Brooke), Andrea, Jaclyn (Charlie), Graeme (Jessica), Evan (Ashley) and Russell. Treasured great-grandfather of Madison, Maddux, Selena, Caleb, Oliver, Lena and Scarlett. Predeceased by his siblings Norval (Marjorie) and Jean (Res).

He will be missed by family and friends; words seem inadequate in conveying our sense of loss. Friends will be received by the family from 12:00-1:00pm on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at the A. Millard George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London. The funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel at 1:00pm. Cremation has taken place. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 123 St. George Street, London, ON N6A 3A1 or St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation - Parkwood Institute, 550 Wellington Road, London, ON N6C 0A7. Online condolences, memories and photographs shared at www.amgfh.com

It is with a great deal of sadness we mourn the loss of Carole Fleet's son Allister.

Nesbitt - Allister John Terrance formerly of Ipperwash passed away on Saturday, December 30th, 2017 at University Hospital in London.
Loved and missed by his mother Carole and stepfather Ralph Fleet. Loved brother of Kimmerly (Kimberly) Nesbitt, Cheryl Blancher, Valerie Nesbitt (Brian), Christina (Chad) Davidson, Kelly Sonke (John), many nieces, nephews, friends and best friend Duke. Predeceased by his father Albert, his sister Theresa and brother Phillip.
A memorial service will be conducted on Thursday, January 4th, 2018 at 12pm at The Church of the Epiphany, 11 Briscoe St W, in London. Reverend Teresa Corrigan officiating. A visitation will take place 1 hour prior to the service. A spring Interment at Ward Cemetery.
Memorial donations appreciated to The Church of the Epiphany. Please leave a memory or condolence online at www.GilpinFuneralChapel.com

A recent article in the London Free Press reports that for every dollar spent by churches on outreach programming, the community reaps $4.77 worth of benefit

Check out the link below

Here's the article:

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 6:40:07 EDT PM

A new tool by a Hamilton-based think tank is letting Canadians coast to coast see how money from church collection plates in their community translates to social good on the street.

For every dollar congregations spend on programming, the community reaps $4.77 worth of benefit, according to Cardus estimates. Researchers call this divine social and economic spin-off a halo – and now the public can search for their town or city using the think tank’s tool.

“These communities are generating good beyond themselves and that means everybody is kind of benefitting,” said Milton Friesen, senior fellow and program director at Cardus.

“If they disappeared and you had to cover the common good benefits that they’re giving to the community, what would that cost you in a dollar figure?… Who would pick up that slack?”

The interactive online tool is an expansion of study published last year that focused 10 Christian and non-Christian Toronto congregations.

The Cardus team assigned market prices to the services each group provided – including daycares, recreation space, alcohol and drug addiction programming, family counselling, housing developments and helping refugees settle in Canada. Researchers interviewed church leaders and handed out detailed questionnaires for them to complete. The study was based on a similar project conducted in Philadelphia and was funded by the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, World Vision Canada, The Salvation Army and several other religious organizations.

When the project leads tallied up all the programs, assessed their monetary worth and compared the final sum to the 10 churches’ overall operating budget, they found that for every dollar the congregations spent on initiatives, the community receives nearly $4.77 in benefits.

“They’re not producing widgets or cars or things that can be directly linked to GDP…. But if they disappeared and the municipality or somebody had to put back all the stuff that’s missing, how much would that cost,” said Friesen.

The newly-released Halo Calculator applies the figure uncovered in Cardus’ 2016 study to Canada Revenue Agency data for church groups across the country. St. Thomas’ 16 listed congregations had a combined operating budget of $2,546,336 in 2013. By Cardus estimates, the total dollar value of the services they provide totals more than $12 million.

“This is all still very experimental,” said Friesen, adding the Halo Calculator numbers are only meant to be estimates.

“We’re hoping to generate more research. We’re pretty sure this is not the end of the story.”

Friesen wants the findings and the new online tool to spark conversations about the role religious institutions play in community development – especially at a time when some are facing an aging congregation and declining membership.

“This will hopefully generate discussion between municipalities and faith communities,” said Friesen.

“They are part of the social ecology of their communities. The look to be generative, they’re adding something, they’re not extracting. Let’s talk about what that means in terms of the long-term wellbeing of our communities.”

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Halo Effect in Southwestern Ontario

Dollar value of community impact

London – 351 organizations – $811,032,649

Sarnia – 77 organizations – $143,333,940

Chatham – 67 organizations – $97,430,622

Woodstock – 56 organizations – $77,840,471

Aylmer – 22 organizations – $19,320,647

St. Thomas – 16 organizations – $12,146,023

Dutton – 11 organizations – $2,560,670

West Lorne – 5 organizations – $2,146,438

Sunday February 25th 2018

Flowers in the Church Feb 25

The flowers in the Sanctuary today are to the Glory of God and in loving memory of a dear father and mother Stuart and Molly Tack and mother and father Gertrude and Ben Smallman and a dear sister Diane Buie given by George and Barb Smallman.

NOW THAT WE HAVE AN ELEVATOR PLEASE USE NEW MAIN ENTRANCE!!!

To minimize road salt being tracked into the church and hall, we ask everyone to use the new main entrance. We have installed carpets there to help catch some of the snow, salt and other winter debris. We also are planning to use ICE MELT instead of salt to see if that helps make cleanup any easier. If you are bringing in food for our potluck lunch, there will be a cart in the main entrance area. Leave your goodies there and we will see that they get down to the kitchen.

Our elevator is installed and working. Operators have been trained and everything is ready for you to come to Sunday's service. Make sure to tell everyone that is not coming because they can't manage the stairs. Please let them know we are now accessible!!! And to top it all off we have 2 fully accessible washrooms as well.

Thank you for your generous love of Epiphany. Our Church does much good, quietly, with out fanfare. Lets all keep up our Good Work!

*Rummage and Garage Sale. Sat. Feb. 24. Thanks to many kind donations, our small (8 X8) storage room is unfortunately full! Thus we can not take more donations until Set Up Friday Feb. 23 at 1:00 p.m. We appreciate you thinking of us, and understand if you must give your donations elsewhere in the meantime. But if you can hold them for us, we are very grateful!